Motherhood: Lions 2009 30x42

Year2009

Hand SignedLower Left 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassWood Frame 

Purchased fromDealer 2010 

Certificate of AuthenticityMMA Fine Arts 

LID146533

Mikhail Chapiro - Russian Federation

Art Brokerage: Mikhail Chapiro Russian Artist: b. 1938. Mikhail Chapiro is an artist of Russian Jewish origin. Chapiro immigrated to Canada from Russia in 1992. The themes of his paintings are portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, animals, flowers, and abstract works. The manner of Chapiro's paintings is a mixture of realism and abstraction. Chapiro paints mainly in oil on canvas. He is an author of portraits of Soviet physicists, such as Andrey Sakharov, Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, Mikhail Leontovich, Igor Tamm, Lev Artsimovich, Abram Ioffe. He is an author of a portrait of Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. The painting is currently owned by St. Petersburg Museum for Theatre Arts. The portrait of Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich by Chapiro was exhibited at various exhibitions in New York and New Jersey. Chapiro's works represented at the Museum of Russian Art in New York. His personal exhibitions are regularly held in Montreal. His recent exhibition at Galerie Michel-Ange, Montreal, Canada, has included 15 portraits of most famous artists of 19th and 20th centuries, such as Claude Monet, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich and others. Listings wanted.